All Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
- Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. Calories
- We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. Dawdle
- So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. Behaving
- If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. Anything Else
- People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. Disapprove
- Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. Catches
- Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. Burst
- Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. Cookie
- Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it. Child
- Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is. All
- Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. Businessman
- Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. Better
- A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. Better
- Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. Affair
- The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. Better
- We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like. Admire
- Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else. Always Seems
- A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one. Figure
- God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia. Common
- When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. Anything Else